Even before we moved to the Pacific Northwest, we started exploring the many hot springs across the region and Jackson WellSprings in Southern Oregon has been on my bucket list for some time. With warmish temperatures in mid-April, we piled…
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“Founded in 1852, the Buena Vista Ferry is one of the oldest continuously operated ferries in Oregon. In fact, two of the three remaining Willamette River ferries in operation are the Buena Vista and Wheatland ferries in Marion County.” This…
We recently went to South Seattle for a spring getaway weekend in Washington by Lake Washington and Tukwila. There are two awesome hotels that were right near a lot of things to do. We stayed the first night at the…
As the author of 100 Things to do in Eugene, Oregon Before You Die, I was thrilled to learn travel journalist Joshua Savage was coming out with a Bend version of the travel guidebook. Published in 2019, 100 Things to…
With sixty-two locations across Oregon and Washington, McMenamins is a family owned, hyper-regional brand of brewpubs, breweries, music venues, historic hotels, and theater pubs. A “chain” founded mainly in brand recognition and menu consistency, each McMenamins location is unique in…
The last time our family went to the Oregon Coast was in November for Florence, Oregon’s annual Exploding Whale Memorial Celebration. I wrote about that visit, which sounds strange, but this post explains how the event came to be and…